Green Deal must recognise that agriculture is a commercial activity –...
IFA President Joe Healy has said that the aspirations of the European Commission’s Green Deal must recognise that agriculture is a commercial activity which...
Minister reminds farmers of the opening of the Calf Investment Scheme
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, has announced that the Calf Investment Scheme (CIS) opened for applications on Tuesday,...
Sod turned on €8.8m Food Innovation Hub
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD turned the sod on a new €8.8 million National Food Innovation Hub at the...
Cork CAP meeting planned for Ballincollig has been deferred
‘The CAP Post 2020 – What Will It Mean For Cork Farmers?’ meeting advertised in last week’s edition of The Avondhu has had to be...
Dairygold and ASA host Dairy 2020 event
Dairygold and the Agricultural Science Association (ASA) hosted a Dairy 2020 event on Tuesday, 21st January at the Dairygold Agribusiness Centre in Lombardstown, Mallow, Co....
Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine has identified evidence of...
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has identified evidence of exposure to lyssavirus in a sable (a small carnivorous mammal) which...
‘There is no such thing as a safe cow’ – HSA
Farmers preparing for calving season have been warned that ‘there’s no such thing as a quiet cow’. Planning a fortnight-long farm inspection campaign, which started...
Top tillage farmer crowned Dairygold Malting Barley winner
Top tillage farmer Jeremiah Dineen was announced the overall winner of this year’s Dairygold Malting Barley competition at the recent Tillage conference at the...
Dairygold pays year end milk bonus and offers new fixed milk...
The Board of Dairygold has this week approved the payment of a Milk Bonus of 0.5 cent per litre including VAT on all milk...
Quintuplet lambs ‘a 1 in a million occurrence’
Described as a 1 in a million occurrence, the first time ‘lamber’ gave birth unaided to quintuplet lambs (4 ewes and 1 ram).
The lambs...
